1871 - France: Paris Commune, over 200,000 people turn
out at the City Hall to see the Central Committee of the
National Guard abolished by their newly elected officials,
members whose names are read to to the crowd which
acclaims them, making this day a revolutionary festival.
The red flag, raised over all public buildings, emblem
of the Commune.
http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/pariscommune/Pariscommunearchive.html
1909 - Novelist Nelson Algren (�A Walk on the Wild Side�)
lives (1909-1981), Detroit, Michigan. Grew up in Chicago in
a poor Polish neighborhood, served a four-month jail term
for stealing a typewriter. Algren joined John Reed Club &
was editor of the New Anvil, an experimental magazine.
Heavy drinker & gambler, involved with Simone de Beauvoir.
"Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a
place called Moms. Never sleep with a woman whose
troubles are worse than your own."
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/03ref.htm#28/1909
1911 - Bonnot � gang bandit � caught & killed by cops
after months of joyous bank robbing & other escapades.
Many letters had been sent publicizing their actions &
taunting the police.
1915 - Emma Goldman lectures again on "Limitation of
Offspring--Why & How Small Families are Preferable"
in New York. Although explicit information is repeated
& detectives are present, no arrests are made.
When Emma began speaking publicly on homosexuality
& on how to practice birth control, the authorities could
no longer tolerate her.
She, Margaret Sanger, & others had been lecturing about
birth control generally for years. But general talk was one
thing & telling how to do it was quite another.
The latter was a crime. Emma was arrested for publicly
for the explaining for the first time anywhere in America
how to use a contraceptive. . .
Margaret Anderson of "The Little Review" observed,
"Emma Goldman was sent to prison
for advocating that women need not always
keep their mouths shut & their wombs open."
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/03ref.htm#28/1915
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/Encyclopedia/GoldmanEmma.htm
1915 - Switzerland: International Socialist Women's
Conference calls for peace, Berne.
1918 - Canada: 2,000 demonstrate against conscription, in
Quebec; police are forced to retreat into the police station.
1968 -- France: In Nanterre, suspension of all school
courses until April 1 because of student unrest.
1972 - Canada: Quebec general strike.
1976 - US: Organized Crime? FBI, largest & highest US police
agency, discloses it burglarized the Socialist Party 92+ times
between 1960 & 1966.
1979 - US: A Three Mile Island cooling unit fails, leading
to a meltdown that uncovers the reactor's core. Amid the
worst nuclear disaster in U.S. history, it will take
Pennsylvania authorities three days to advise pregnant
women & children to evacuate. Thousands will flee the
Harrisburg area. The men -- apparently born macho
mutants -- hang around for their daily dose.
"No nuclear reactor is an island."
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/03ref.htm#28/1979
1983 - Argentina: 96% of the workers out on strike;
junta totters.
"Jehovah the bearded & angry god, gave his worshipers
the supreme example of ideal laziness; after six days of
work, he rests for all eternity."
� Paul LaFargue's �The Right to be Lazy & Other
Studies� (Chicago: Charles H. Kerr, 1907)
Recently updated, the Anarchist Time Line,
2500+ entries,
http://recollectionbooks.com/bleed/indexTimeline.htm
